Rockets fired at Ukrainian nuclear power plant; Ukraine and Russia blame each other
Posted: 11th August 2022
By John Mecklin | August 7, 2022
A Russian serviceman patrols the territory of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in May 1. – The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in southeastern Ukraine is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe and among the 10 largest in the world. (Editor’s note: This picture was taken during a media trip organized by the Russian army. (Photo by ANDREY BORODULIN/AFP via Getty Images)
Ukraine claimed that Russia had fired rockets on Saturday at a spent fuel storage area at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southern Ukraine, risking what the country’s nuclear power company called a “nuclear disaster.” A Russian official claimed the attack had come from Ukraine.
Though accounts of the attack were confused and at times conflicting, no damage to reactors or fuel containers or release of radiation was reported. The attack on Saturday followed shelling on Friday at the plant for which Ukraine and Russia also blamed on one another.